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Brexit: A Love Story?Episodes

  1. 25. The Purge

    Mark Mardell examines how revolution was afoot in the Conservative Party

  2. 24. The Centre Cannot Hold

    Mark Mardell delves into the problems that dogged the centre ground

  3. 23. Three Strikes and You're Out!

    Mark Mardell explores heightened tensions as Mrs May's withdrawal deal fails to impress

  4. 22. The Spartans

    Mark Mardell meets the European Research Group

  5. Brexit: How did we get here?

    Mark Mardell recaps how Britain joined, and ultimately came to leave the European Union

  6. 21. Checkmate at Chequers

    Mark Mardell revisits a hot and sunny day at the Prime Minister's country retreat

  7. 20. The path to a meaningful vote

    Mark Mardell navigates MPs' journey to secure a meaningful vote on Bexit

  8. 19. The election that broke Brexit

    Mark Mardell dissects the 2017 general election

  9. 18. Dexeu: Brexit from a broom cupboard

    Mark Mardell delves into Whitehall and the new Department for Exiting the European Union

  10. 17. Lancaster House and red lines

    Mark Mardell dissects Theresa May's infamous Lancaster House speech

  11. 16. Article 50 and the Avatar of Hate

    Mark Mardell unpicks how – and when – Article 50 was triggered

  12. 15. Road to Conference

    Mark Mardell considers the role of Mrs May’s chiefs of staff in her first months at No10

  13. 14. Inside May's Mind

    Mark Mardell delves into what the Prime Minister really thought about the EU

  14. 13. An Island Nation

    Mark Mardell finishes his journey through Britain's 45 year relationship with the EU

  15. 12. Five miscalculations and a resignation

    Mark Mardell asks whether David Cameron's decisions over Europe led to his own demise

  16. 11. Banging on about Europe

    Mark Mardell charts the rise of UKIP and the effect it had on the Conservative party

  17. 10. Pole position

    Mark Mardell looks at how EU migration shaped the Brexit debate

  18. Blair, Brown and a bike ride

    Mark Mardell remembers the push and pull of Europe under New Labour

  19. 9. Blair, Brown and a bike ride

    Mark Mardell remembers the push and pull of Europe under New Labour

  20. 8. The Most Successful Party That Never Won A Seat

    Mark Mardell gets to grips with Sir James Goldsmith and his Referendum Party

  21. 7. Major and the mad cows

    Mark Mardell returns to a health crisis recast into familiar territory: a Brussels battle

  22. 6. Major’s Bastards and the Battle of Maastricht

    Mark Mardell revisits the tensions in the Conservative party over the Maastricht Treaty

  23. 5. Up Yours Delors!

    Mark Mardell considers the role of the press in influencing public opinion about the EU

  24. 4. From Bruges to Bust

    Mark Mardell explores the role of Europe in Margaret Thatcher's downfall

  25. 3. Battling Maggie's blues

    Mark Mardell follows Margaret Thatcher's fight to reduce Britain's bill to the EEC

  26. 2. Yes to Britain in Europe

    Mark Mardell examines the 1975 referendum to remain in the European Economic Community

  27. 1. Fanfare for the future

    Mark Mardell navigates his way through the early days of the UK's love affair with the EU

  28. Welcome to Brexit: A Love Story?

    Welcome to this new BBC podcast. The first episode will be available within 7 days.

  29. Coming soon

    Mark Mardell returns with new episodes of Brexit: A Love Story?